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Let Rouhani and Khamenei Fight

It’s in America’s interest for the Iranian regime’s bitter power struggle to intensify further.

By

Reuel Marc Gerecht and

Ray Takeyh

March 6, 2018 7:08 p.m. ET

Iran’s Islamic revolutionaries criticize each other regularly, but recently the level of invective among the ruling elite has reached new heights. The vicious infighting between President Hassan Rouhani and his detractors now threatens the governing edifice of the Islamic Republic. Given the clerical regime’s aggressive foreign policy and nuclear ambitions, it is in America’s interest to see this power struggle intensify.

During the pro-democracy demonstrations in 2009, most of the Iranian ruling class, including Mr. Rouhani,...